
Krafton unveiled Terminus KIRA, an open‑source AI agent designed to streamline game‑development workflows. Built as a desktop “virtual colleague,” KIRA repackages the internal KRIS system and adds self‑critique prompts to existing large language models. In Terminal‑Bench tests it achieved a 74.8% task‑completion rate, outpacing the previous Terminus 2 by up to 11.6 percentage points. The technology is released under the Ludo Robotics brand to foster community collaboration rather than direct commercial gain.

Mercyhealth, a 6‑hospital system serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, deployed Arintra’s AI‑driven coding platform across 37 sites in 2023. The technology automates chart coding, writes medical codes directly into the EHR, and flags missed reimbursement opportunities. Since implementation, the...

Microsoft announced its "Microsoft Elevate for Educators in India" program, aiming to train 2 million teachers across 2 lakh institutions by 2030. The rollout began in Delhi, covering 75 CM SHRI schools where educators received hands‑on training with Microsoft Copilot. Partnerships with CBSE,...

At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, several startups unveiled AI‑driven solutions aimed at widening healthcare access. Clinics on Cloud introduced “Health ATMs” that combine on‑site screenings for 60+ conditions with tele‑doctor consults, claiming 90‑95% laboratory‑grade accuracy. Other launches...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University secured HK$18.6 million from the Smart Traffic Fund to launch three AI‑driven transport projects. One develops an end‑to‑end intelligent driving system for logistics using multi‑modal sensor fusion and a 360° bird’s‑eye view framework. A second creates...

Gensler released its 2026 Design Forecast, highlighting how artificial intelligence, design agility, and climate adaptation are reshaping the urban built environment. The report adds country‑specific insights, showing Europe’s livability focus, Asia’s dense‑city innovation, and the Middle East’s resilience priorities. Six...

Italy’s AI Act (Law No. 132) became effective on 10 October 2025, making Italy the first EU nation with a comprehensive national AI framework. The law classifies AI systems used for employment decisions as high‑risk, mirroring the EU AI Act, and imposes strict...

AdGuard is offering its Family Plan as a lifetime subscription for $15.97 through February 22, covering up to nine devices. The deal bundles enterprise‑grade ad blocking, tracker suppression, malware and phishing protection, and built‑in parental controls. Users receive continuous updates without...

Microsoft released a report on media integrity and authentication (MIA), detailing techniques such as C2PA provenance, imperceptible watermarking, and soft‑hash fingerprinting to verify digital content origins. The study concludes that no single method can stop deepfakes, urging a layered approach...

Anthropic announced that its Claude Code platform will now include Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven vulnerability‑scanning feature that reads and reasons about code like a human researcher. The tool, launched in a limited research preview, aims to uncover complex issues...
Ten63 Therapeutics, an AI‑driven drug‑discovery firm spun out of Duke and TTIC, announced a strategic investment from Chugai Venture Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing total capital to over $45 million. The company leverages its BEYOND generative‑chemistry platform...

Chyron has launched Paint 10.3, adding AI‑driven active graphics, a flexible speedometer tool, and an enhanced zone blur feature for live sports production. The active graphics layer can animate visuals using AI player‑tracking or manual key‑framing, reducing manual effort. The...
KPMG has been elevated to SAP’s Global Strategic Service Partner tier, positioning its cloud‑native Velocity platform as a core delivery engine for large‑scale ERP transformations. The partnership emphasizes modular accelerators and an AI‑first approach that streamline design, configuration, and testing...

Microsoft’s Defender Security Research team unveiled a new threat called “AI Recommendation Poisoning,” where website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI” embed hidden prompt‑injection instructions. Clicking these buttons feeds AI assistants a URL‑encoded command that tells the model to remember the...
T‑glass, an ultra‑thin glass fiber fabric with low thermal expansion, is becoming essential for AI chips in smartphones and data‑center servers. Its high tensile strength and heat‑dissipating properties stabilize substrates as chips grow larger and more power‑dense. Nitto Boseki dominates...
School districts are experimenting with generative and agentic AI to bolster cybersecurity, but results are mixed. While vendor‑built AI features provide more reliable insights than generic models, many districts still rely on traditional tools due to staffing and budget constraints....

Massachusetts National Guard Senior Airman Matthew Wright completed a five‑month MIT AI fellowship, part of the Department of the Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator. Selected from fewer than 3% of applicants, he was the first junior enlisted Airman to join...

Agentics Day at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 spotlights the Model Connectivity Protocol (MCP) and AI agents, moving them from experimentation to production. The half‑day, community‑driven event features over ten talks on real‑world deployments, governance, and security. It targets platform, SRE, infrastructure...

FlashLabs unveiled FlashAI 2.0, an enterprise‑grade voice AI platform designed to deliver human‑level conversational agents for contact centers, sales automation, and customer experience. The solution replaces fragmented API stacks with a fully integrated speech infrastructure, eliminating robotic tones, latency, and complex...

The FBI’s AI inventory more than doubled from 19 cases in 2024 to 50 in 2025, with nine high‑impact tools embedded in law‑enforcement workflows such as facial recognition and data triage. The rapid expansion outpaces the DOJ’s transparency requirements under...

At the India AI Impact Summit, senior IT executives warned that AI agents will transform SaaS and enterprise services but not eliminate them overnight, emphasizing agility, orchestration, and real‑world problem solving. Salesforce India’s CEO highlighted the need for workflow‑centric SaaS,...

Researchers at Aalto University warn that AI-driven voice analysis can extract sensitive personal data—from political views to health conditions—simply from speech patterns. Their study, published in IEEE Proceedings, highlights risks such as price‑gouging, discriminatory profiling, and stalking if corporations or...

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Maverick Simulation Solutions unveiled LuSI, a 2.5 kg AI‑integrated robotic newborn that replicates real‑time respiratory conditions for high‑fidelity medical training, already adopted by AIIMS, AFMC and PGI. The same event highlighted PhonePe's launch of...
Stacks AI develops purpose‑built artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise accounting, automating the most manual and error‑prone finance workflows. The platform enables finance teams to close books faster and redirect effort toward strategic initiatives. It is already trusted by public companies...
HSBC warned investors that AI‑generated code is unlikely to dethrone entrenched enterprise software giants. The bank cited India’s decades‑long experience customizing SAP and Oracle, noting that despite a massive engineering workforce, no home‑grown challenger has emerged. HSBC argues that success...

athenahealth unveiled the next generation of its AI‑native patient engagement suite within athenaOne, adding text and voice virtual assistants that let patients schedule appointments and ask routine questions 24/7. The texting feature is in alpha and will roll out broadly...

AI infrastructure startup PortKey announced a $15 million Series A round led by Elevation Capital with participation from Lightspeed. The funding will accelerate its unified control‑plane platform that monitors, governs, and cost‑optimizes enterprise AI model usage. PortKey’s AI gateway centralizes traffic, enforces...
Researchers introduced SkillsBench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents across 84 tasks in 11 sectors. Results show agents supplied with curated, human‑provided skills outperform those with no skills by an average of 16.2 percentage points. Self‑generated skills offered no measurable benefit,...

CharterUP has teamed up with Holon to fuse Holon’s autonomous vehicle ecosystem with CharterUP’s AI‑first mobility platform and nationwide network. The deal enables CharterUP to roll out Holon’s self‑driving shuttles across campuses, airports, transit agencies and community settings. By offering...

The U.S. Army’s Combined Army Doctrine Directorate is training doctrine writers to use generative AI tools to accelerate the creation and revision of field manuals. Internally‑developed applications now let authors search hundreds of texts in hours and automatically check grammar...
Amazon Q Developer, a generative‑AI assistant, now automates the end‑to‑end provisioning of machine‑learning infrastructure on AWS. By interfacing with the Cloud Control API, SageMaker, and CDK, it creates IaC for GPU clusters, VPC‑only pipelines, and serverless inference stacks. The tool...

XYPRO, a PartnerOne company, launched Lionel, an AI‑powered assistant that centralizes institutional knowledge for HPE Nonstop Compute environments. The tool tackles fragmented documentation, support tickets, and expert expertise by delivering verified answers from internal and external sources. Early results show...
Caterpillar showcased its Intelligent Cab Assistant, an AI‑driven voice interface installed in an excavator, allowing operators to query controls, retrieve manuals, monitor machine health, and order parts hands‑free. The system can set safety ceilings, warn of overhead obstacles, and provide...

Real-time voice AI remains a tough engineering problem despite advances in deep learning. Companies like Deepgram highlight that latency must stay under 500 ms and speech variability—from accents to background noise—keeps error rates high. End‑to‑end models have lifted accuracy, yet enterprise...
AWS has expanded its Kiro visual‑studio‑code‑based agentic IDE with two new workflows—Design‑first and Bugfix—to better serve developers who work on existing codebases and debugging tasks. The Design‑first flow turns architecture sketches into detailed specifications and task plans, while the Bugfix...

Miele is extending its partnership with IFS to deploy IFS Cloud powered by IFS.ai across more than 25 countries, following a successful rollout in Australia and New Zealand. The AI‑enabled field service platform will standardize the entire service lifecycle, from...

A secret 2025 meeting of leading mathematicians tested OpenAI’s new o4‑mini model, which delivered proofs that sounded convincingly rigorous. Experts, including Terry Tao, warned that the AI often appears correct while containing subtle errors that are hard for humans to...

PPC is moving past traditional search as AI‑first ad formats like Microsoft’s showroom ads and immersive gaming placements gain traction. Visual creative is becoming a staple throughout the funnel, with brands needing richer asset libraries to feed AI‑driven optimization. Experts...

Akido Labs has deployed an AI‑native platform that equips community health workers with real‑time data collection, documentation, and patient‑engagement tools for street‑medicine teams. The model aligns with California’s CalAIM whole‑person care framework and shifts the heavy reporting burden away from...

Microsoft announced that longtime Xbox head Phil Spencer and president Sarah Bond are departing the division. Asha Sharma, previously Microsoft’s CoreAI product president, will take over as Xbox CEO, while Matt Booty moves into the chief content officer role. The...
Meta will host its Marketing Summit Online 2026 on March 11, a virtual event spanning three continents for marketers, brand executives, and creators. The agenda includes Meta’s 2026 product roadmap, AI‑driven advertising tactics, and performance measurement sessions led by senior...

Loblaw Companies Limited has partnered with Google to let Canadian shoppers buy health, beauty and apparel items directly through Google Search’s AI Mode and the Gemini app. The move makes Loblaw the first major Canadian retailer to enable purchases via...

Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending surged to $119.1 billion in Q4, a 30% year‑over‑year increase and the fastest growth in three years, driven largely by generative AI workloads. The top three hyperscalers—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—still dominate, but AI‑focused providers such as CoreWeave...

At the 2026 EAPCI Summit, experts highlighted AI’s expanding role in cardiovascular interventions, from mortality risk modeling to intravascular imaging analysis. A University of Galway study identified gamma‑glutamyl transferase as a strong 10‑year mortality predictor in the SYNTAX cohort, validated...

SPARC AI Inc. announced an upgrade to its Overwatch platform that embeds machine‑learning models to continuously calibrate and correct drone telemetry drift in real time, eliminating the need for hardware changes. The software‑only solution lets low‑cost inertial measurement units achieve...

Coram has secured a multi‑year statewide contract with the Educational Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (ECPA) and the Central Indiana Educational Service Center to provide AI‑driven integrated security solutions across Indiana’s schools, government facilities, and non‑profits. The agreement allows eligible institutions to...

Dropbox reported FY2025 revenue of $2.5 billion, essentially flat year‑over‑year, while GAAP operating margin improved to 27.3% and non‑GAAP margin hit 40.6%. The company expects paying‑user growth to remain flat in FY2026, mirroring the prior year’s stability. Dropbox is banking on...

TQA announced a rebrand and strategic shift toward Agentic AI, aiming to close the gap where 95% of AI projects stall before production. The company unveiled new technology practices with Microsoft—integrating Copilot, Power Platform, and Azure AI—and ServiceNow, focusing on...

GoDaddy announced an integration with Salesforce’s MuleSoft Agent Fabric to authenticate AI agents before they access sensitive corporate data. Advent International agreed to sell its Argentine payments firms Newpay and Group Prisma to Visa, expanding Visa’s footprint in Latin America....

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping satellite operations, enabling real‑time capacity management and on‑orbit data processing. Smaller, agile constellations now require decision speeds that outpace human operators, prompting a shift toward AI‑driven bandwidth allocation and autonomous payload control. By processing imagery...